'while' in list comprehension?

[Hung Jung Lu]

jsaul <jsaul at gmx.de> wrote in message news:<20031022175924.GA10716 at jsaul.de>...
> 
>     foo = [ i for i in bar while len(i)>0 ]
> 
> Is there any reason for not having this kind of thing? I actually
> miss it pretty often.

Could you provide an example where you need it?

>From your message, it seems "bar" might be a list of strings. If so, you could use:

foo = bar[:bar.index('')]

regards,

Hung Jung